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I've been playing Cinderella all month, cleaning the downstairs and my room of twenty year old clutter and dust. I found some of my old poetry which is four years old and younger. Some of it's good. Most of it is emo, especially the stuff from high school. There's even some that are translated in Japanese when I could still write and read Japanese quite well.

I want to get back into writing. I'm out of school. I have the time now. I've never really been able to write anything more than two chapters or a short story in length. I'd really like to do a longer project, but I don't seem very good at planning things out or I get ideas for scenes I want to happen, but there are plenty of holes which I don't know how to fill up. I finished college. I want to prove to myself that I can finish something outside of college on my own. I know I'm good at writing, its just the momentum I have trouble with.

A year ago, I did plan out a story which I hoped I could turn into a novel, but now I'm a bit perturbed by the fact that it does involve vampires-- nasty ones, not the glittering type. Now I have an idea for something folklore based, but I don't know if I'll go in that direction.

ETA: Now that I think about it, I do write everyday with my rp partner on AIM, but its a little different writing your own original stuff.